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Haravex
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Thanks tigg I too thought rebbach but the curved tip threw me off as they are normally straight or at least what I have seen any idea on the position of the turtle in terms of anatomy wise? Again all these pieces have no id to them when bought just that they are from kem kem beds.

Your first tooth is that of an indeterminate sauropod. Identification of these type teeth is very problematic and cannot be assigned to a genus. Reminder we do not have any skull material from any sauropod in the Kem Kem. Best described as a Neosauropoda disregard what everyone is selling. .

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Haravex
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Thank you for such fast and informative responses can't believe I missed that sauropod topic but very insightful. Any idea what type of turtle bones they are I.e. carpal, metatarsal, tibula ect? And again thank you will post later some possible skull element has a lot of sutures and good shape for skull candidate material.

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LordTrilobite
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I agree that it looks like a skull part. It's a tough one. With a long curved shape like that, maybe part of a nasal? Cleaning it up more might show better where it's broken and where there are sutures as well as the outer surface.

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LordTrilobite
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It's say it's a match with this caudal vert I have. I was told at the Natural History Museum in Leiden that this was dinosaur. While @Troodon says this is croc due to the curvature on the side surfaces of the dorsal spine. So I'm not quite sure yet. I think I might lean more towards croc as Troodon has a point that it looks similar. But What I find interesting is that the zygapophyses seem to be partially hollow, which makes me think of Theropod.

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There is also this one which fits the characteristics troodon described about the twist and the fine serations on the mesial side, and on the distal side the serations are stright not angled like ablesauride teeth, it is 14mm straight line.

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Troodon
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I'm in the crock camp on that vert, too many wrinkles on the back edge and the spine is not flat and very perpendicular. The only cretaceous dino vert I have around this shape a dorsal its very smooth with sharp edges. The spines are also flat on the flat face no ridges.